New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops the Japanese Charts

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Mario returns to the top of Media Create's software chart as PSP and PS3 lead in hardware.

By Anoop Gantayat

Mario showed off his long (shaved) legs in Japan this week as New Super Mario Bros. Wii topped Media Create's weekly software sales chart. The game was released on December 3, 2009 and last reached the number one spot twelve weeks back.

Mario didn't do anything in particular to reach the top spot. It was just a slow week overall for games. The only major new release was a PSP remake of PS2's Atelier Judie, and that failed to break into the top 10.

In the above, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is a budget version of the original release. Not only that, but it's a second release of the budget version. Counted separately, even this has managed to sell a quarter million units. Total sales for all Monster Hunter Freedom Unite SKUs in Japan have topped four million.

While Nintendo topped the software charts, Sony dominated hardware. Both PSP and PS3 fell from last week, however, closing some of the gap. In particular, DS returned to being number one when you add up all its various revisions.

1. PSP: 29,766 (37,445)

2. PS3: 28,973 (38,877)

3. Wii: 25,345 (30,938)

4. DSi LL: 19,372 (21,583)

5. DSi: 13,738 (15,526)

6. DS Lite: 3,349 (4,110)

7. Xbox 360: 3,218 (2,676)

8. PS2: 1,826 (1,815)

9. PSP go: 1,425 (1,803)

Media Create noted one major feat for the DS platform. It has now topped the 30 million overall sales mark in Japan. This is something that has only been done by Game Boy if you include sales of Game Boy Color.